Tournament Details
Event: The Goat, hosted by Navy
When: Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 20-21
Where: Naval Academy Golf Club, Annapolis, Md. | Par 71, 6,970 yards
Format: Stroke Play | Play 5, Count 4
Schedule of Play: Three 18-hole rounds
    Saturday, Sept. 20 - Round 1 | 8:30 am shotgun start
    Saturday, Sept. 20 - Round 2 | Upon conclusion of round 1
    Sunday, Sept. 21 - Round 3 | 8:00 am tee times / 1st and 10th 
Participating Teams (16): Binghamton, Bucknell, Colgate, Columbia, UConn, George Mason, Georgetown, George Washington, Harvard, Howard, Lafayette, Le Moyne, Loyola Maryland, Navy, Seton Hall, William & Mary
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After opening the 2025-26 campaign last week at the Folds of Honor Collegiate in Michigan, the Navy men's golf team returns home this weekend to play host to The Goat. The two-day, 54-hole tournament is slated to begin on Saturday at the Naval Academy Golf Club (par-71 / 6,970 yards). The opening round begins with a shotgun start at 8:30 am with the second round to follow upon conclusion of round one. Sunday's final round tee times begin at 8:00 am from the 1st and 10th tees.

About the Tournament
• This is the second-consecutive year Navy has played host to The Goat.
• Pacific won the inaugural tournament title with a 1-under par 851 (274-285-292), while Loyola's Gustavo Rangel claimed individual medalist honors with a 3-under par 210 (68-73-69).
• Eleven of the 16 teams participating in this year's edition of The Goat played in the inaugural tournament. Pacific, however, is not returning, meaning there will be a new team champion this season. 
• Returning teams include Binghamton, Bucknell, Colgate, Columbia, Georgetown, George Washington, Howard, Lafayette, Loyola Maryland, Navy and William & Mary. Making their first appearance in The Goat will be UConn, George Mason, Harvard, Le Moyne and Seton Hall.
• Last year's The Goat marked the first time Navy had hosted a fall tournament since 2016.
• Navy previously hosted the Navy Fall Classic from 1992-2016 (1997, '98 did not play).
• Former Navy men's golf head coach Pat Owen will be honored as The Goat at this year's tournament. Owen led the Navy men's golf program for 32 years and was a nine-time Patriot League Coach of the Year. He guided the Midshipmen to seven NCAA Regional appearances. Additionally, eight Navy players  won the Patriot League individual crown and five players earned Patriot League Rookie-of-the-Year accolades under his tutelage. Forty-three players accounted for 69 All-Patriot League citations during his 32 years, including Aaron Wright (1994, '95, '96, '97) and Billy Hurley (2001, '02, '03, '04) who are Navy's only two four-time All-Patriot League honorees.

The Course
• The Naval Academy Golf Club is a private, university golf course owned by the Naval Academy. 
• It is operated by the Naval Academy Golf Association (NAGA), which is affiliated with the Naval Academy Athletic Association (NAAA). 
• The golf course serves as the home course for the Brigade of Midshipmen and all of the faculty and staff at the Naval Academy. Active duty and retired military personnel, as well as civilians also have access to the course. 
• The Naval Academy golf course was realized in 1938, when the U.S. Navy purchased the surrounding land on Greenbury Point in order to expand their radio communications facility. The acquired land included the 18-hole golf course developed in 1928 by the Greenbury Point Yacht and Country Club, but had become abandoned during the Great Depression.
• Over the next two years, the Navy restored nine of the eighteen original holes and in 1940, the Naval Academy Golf Club opened for play. In 1942, William Flynn was contracted to design and develop a course composed around the existing nine holes. 
• After two years, Flynn's redesigned Naval Academy course debuted in 1944. The finished course included eleven holes south of Greenbury Point Road and seven holes north of the main road, and incorporated the rolling terrain of inlets and surrounding tidal rivers of the Chesapeake Bay, along with views of the Bay Bridge in the distance.
• Further expansion of the radio facility eliminated two of the holes south of the road and two holes, the present numbers 13 and 14 were added. This completed the layout that exists today with the front nine south of the road and the back nine north of the road. Flynn's design emphasized his strategy of "preferred line of play" in which the golfer is encouraged to place his shot with thought for advantage on the subsequent shot.


Navy's Lineup
(Golfer / Yr / Hometown / 2025-26 avg. / Career avg.)
1 | Chip Deegan (Sr / Newport Beach, Calif. / 71.50 / 73.77)
2 | Hudson Mitchell (Fr / Pensacola, Fla. / 74.33 / 74.33)
3 | Derek Weaver (Sr / Hackettstown, N.J. / 76.00 / 77.00)
4 | Jack Tarzy (Sr / Medford, N.J. / 76.67 / 74.22)
5 | Sebastian Alonzo (Fr. / Azusa, Calif. / --- / ---)
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IND | Josh Durthaler (Fr. / Dunwoody, Ga. / 78.33 / 78.33)
IND | Danny Auffant (Jr. / Bellevue, Wash. / --- / 77.13)
IND | Kaden Ausen (So. / Puyallup, Wash. / --- / 74.62)
IND | Ed Scott (So. / Lemont, Ill. / --- / 77.12)

More on the Mids
• Navy kicked off the 2025-26 season at the Folds of Honor Colelgiate (Sept. 8-10) where the Mids placed 13th with a 44-over par 896. Chip Deegan finished just outside of the top 20 in 25th with a 6-over par 219. Additionally, Navy finished ahead of service academy foes Air Force and Army and Deegan was the top-finishing service academy individual.
• Deegan went on to represent the Naval Academy at the Jackson T. Stephens Cup held this past Monday and Tuesday. He competed as an individual in the event where he tied for 16th by shooting par (210 / 69-72-69) for the tournament. He was named the Patriot League Men's Golfer of the Week for his performance.

What's Ahead
• Navy will return to the links Sept. 30-Oct. 1 when it travels to Mamaroneck, N.Y. to play in the Commander-In-Chief's Cup at the Winged Foot Golf Club.

### Go Navy ###